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June 1950

The oldest monthly devoted to verse in the English-speaking world.

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Judson Crews
House Cunningham
Babette Deutsch
Peter Dufault
Jean Farley

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, June 1950

Table of Contents

Three Poems

Leslie A. Fiedler

Two Poems

V. R. Lang
- The Elizabethans and Illusion
- Incantation to an Age of Stone

Three Poems

Judson Crews

Mac Hammond
- Snapshot
Babette Deutsch
- The Poem
William J. Murphy
- The Deeper Mine
James Baker Hall
- Gaspar's Ferry: End of Ohio Roads
Clellon Holmes
- The Palpable Elysium

Three Poems

Peter Kane Dufault

Ellen Tifft
- Ride Quickly Schuyler

Two Poems

Mary Hutton
- Four
- Five

Jean Farley
- A Better Mousetrap

Three Poems of a Group

House Cunningham

Reviews

Hugh Kenner
- The Son of Spiders
J. Radcliffe Squires
- Two Views of Rexroth
Francis C. Golffing
- The Signature of All Things by Kenneth Rexroth
Arvid Shulenberger
- From Senlin to Kilroy
Edouard Roditi
- A Salad and a Dressing
Rosalie Moore
- O That Shakespeherian Rag
Jackson Mathews
- A Fleet of Ship-Models
Louis Zukofsky
- Poetry in a Modern Age

Contributors
- - Leslie A. Fiedler
  - V. R. Lang
  - Judson Crews
  - Mac Hammond
  - Babette Deutsch
  - William J. Murphy
  - James Baker Hall
- - Clellon Holmes
  - Peter Kane Dufault
  - Ellen Tifft
  - Mary Hutton
  - Jean Farley
  - House Cunningham
  - Hugh Kenner
- - J. Radcliffe Squires
  - Francis C. Golffing
  - Arvid Shulenberger
  - Edouard Roditi
  - Rosalie Moore
  - Jackson Mathews
  - Louis Zukofsky